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May 1986

 
  • Neal Bowers
  • Christopher Bursk
  • Henry Carlile
  • Joan Colby
  • Robert Fink
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Mayflies

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For the Heart

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The Charge

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Table of Contents

  • Brendan Galvin
    • Mayflies
    • Pole Beans
    • Fog Township
  • Neal Bowers
    • For the Heart
    • The Dance
    • Bring Pies
  • Robert Morgan
    • The Charge
    • Visitors
  • J. W. Rivers
    • Illinois: At Night, Black Hawk's Statue Broods
  • Jim Hall
    • One-Liners
    • Working to the Top
    • Ourselves
    • Tennis Elbow
  • G. E. Murray
    • Northern Exposures
    • Flying Low, near France, among Birds
  • Joan Colby
    • Target Fixation
  • Robert A. Fink
    • Consider
    • Mother's Day
    • The Need for Order
  • Victoria Hallerman
    • A Sculpture by George Segal
    • The Road Home
    • Slippage: A Writing-Room Idyll
  • Christopher Bursk
    • Rowing Cutthroat Creek
    • Sisters
    • The Trees Keeping Their Place, Saying Nothing
  • Donald Hall
    • Sums
  • David Wojahn
    • Pentecost
  • Henry Carlile
    • Camouflage
    • In Oceans, in Rivers
Blessings and Rain
  • Peter Stitt
    • Blessings and Rain
    • Blessing, by Christopher Jane Corkery
    • Driving the Body Back, by Mary Swander
    • Swan's Island, by Elizabeth Spires
    • Any Given Day, by Ralph Burns
    • Winter Stars, by Larry Levis
    • Wild Gratitude, by Edward Hirsch
    • Rain, by William Carpenter
CONTRIBUTORS
  • Neal Bowers
  • Christopher Bursk
  • Henry Carlile
  • Joan Colby
  • Robert A. Fink
  • Brendan Galvin
  • Jim Hall
  • Donald Hall
  • Victoria Hallerman
  • Robert Morgan
  • G. E. Murray
  • J. W. Rivers
  • Peter Stitt
  • David Wojahn
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